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Re:Instagram no longer allows people without an account to v... by mtlynch on Thursday April 23, 2020 @01:50PM (#22958706)
This happened to me too. I suspect the reason is that I used the email address instagram.[a few random letters]@mydomain.com. I'm guessing it triggered their bot detection.
Re:Instagram no longer allows people without an account to v... by netsharc on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:40PM (#22962395)
If I were to do this, I'd just remove the "instagram." bit, and just map [1 set of random letters] -> "Instagram" somewhere.

I wonder if companies selling their users' email addresses don't already filter out such personalized addresses anyway, so e.g. Instagram would filter out email addresses out containing "instagram", "ig" or "gram" before selling the data (or to corporate-speak it, "share it with third parties to enhance our customers' experience").